Understated · flowing · fully readable
Pressure where it presses, hairline where it lifts.
the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
A level and spare hand. The capital is only 2.1 times the height of the letters after it.
Signature ideas
Six signature directions for Katy
Each one is a genuine drawing of the name — not a font — made by the same studio that draws the paid commission, with the design decisions stated under it.
Confident · flowing · signature-legible
One movement, barely interrupted, which is why it repeats.
the full name · a swept capital · underlined in one return stroke
A long-running and spare hand. It runs 5.2 times wider than it is tall. The "r" in "Worth" is the letter carrying it, because that is where your hand is already fastest.
Commanding · sharp · signature-legible
It gives itself room, and reads as unhurried because of it.
both names in one unbroken line · underlined in one return stroke
A grand and theatrical hand. The capital stands 2.9 times the height of the letters after it. Almost nothing else here runs both names together as one word.
Confident · sharp · fully readable
Written at speed, and it shows in the best way.
the full name · a swept capital · finished on a long sail
An upright and even hand. It stands almost straight up, 19 degrees off vertical. It is also one of the few here that leaves on an exit stroke long enough to carry the eye off the page.
Understated · sharp · signature-legible
Everything rounds, nothing is cornered.
the full name
An airy and level hand. The letters are set well apart. It is the rare one that adds no closing gesture at all.
Commanding · flowing · fully readable
It turns corners instead of rounding them, and that is the whole temperament.
the full name · underlined in one return stroke
A restrained and deliberate hand. No single letter is pushed past its neighbors.
What Katy gives a designer
The capital K carries the mark. There is one professional construction of it on the studio's shelf, and which one a design commits to changes the whole gesture.
The rest of the name sets the terrain: the t reaches into the ascender line, which gives the mark its upper silhouette and the y drops below the baseline — a tail a designer can turn into an underline or let hang.
Four letters or fewer is the easiest length to keep consistent — Katy can be written in full on everything from a card to a contract.
Making it yours
These studies are drawn on the first name alone, because that is how the question is usually asked — but a working signature is built on your full name: the second capital, the balance between the two words, and the short everyday version are where the real design decisions live.
The studio draws twenty directions for your full name in about a minute, and the kit — the files, the report that explains the design, and the stroke-order lesson — is what the three you choose become.